RE: Why, God? Why?!
February 15, 2018 at 3:01 pm
(This post was last modified: February 15, 2018 at 3:51 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It's not a being at all (sentient or otherwise). It's simpler than that, beyond being. Beings exist below "the one" in the neo-platonic heirarchy of existence. Beings like gods..such as the one christians believein...well below...having been formed themselves by primal forces. Gods, in that framework, are barely above us, by one rung or less and all the way at the bottom....mostly the same as we are..just "bigger" versions.
-the philosophy concerning christer god was shit..in that there was none..and so about as soon as they'd eliminated paganism they assumed it for the sake of their own intellectual poverty (this is what the ruckus about christians teaching the classics revolved around in 300ad). Neo, here, being a big fan of aquinas,..ought to be well aware of this fact, as aquinas life work was the attempt to syncretize pagan philosophy with christian superstition. He never managed it, ultimately conceding that the christian god required "revelation" - aka..magic books and visions of risen apparations. In sum, he made it no further than those who;d preceded him by a thousand years. He pitched himself onto the pile we're still familiar with to this day. "Well, that sounds like my god". Unsurprising, the faithful think that everything sounds like their "god".
Eddie Izzard had a great joke about that, concerning the romans and the greeks- that when the romans came along and subsumed greek culture, they were relieved to find the gods..because their gods were crap. They had jeff, god of biscuits.
That's pretty much how I view the judeo-christian god. For all the hub-bub, Yahweh is the god of biscuits, whereas the "god of the philosophers" is a pagan non-deity and out-right rejection of christian superstition.
"you just don't understand" in 3.....2......
-the philosophy concerning christer god was shit..in that there was none..and so about as soon as they'd eliminated paganism they assumed it for the sake of their own intellectual poverty (this is what the ruckus about christians teaching the classics revolved around in 300ad). Neo, here, being a big fan of aquinas,..ought to be well aware of this fact, as aquinas life work was the attempt to syncretize pagan philosophy with christian superstition. He never managed it, ultimately conceding that the christian god required "revelation" - aka..magic books and visions of risen apparations. In sum, he made it no further than those who;d preceded him by a thousand years. He pitched himself onto the pile we're still familiar with to this day. "Well, that sounds like my god". Unsurprising, the faithful think that everything sounds like their "god".
Eddie Izzard had a great joke about that, concerning the romans and the greeks- that when the romans came along and subsumed greek culture, they were relieved to find the gods..because their gods were crap. They had jeff, god of biscuits.
That's pretty much how I view the judeo-christian god. For all the hub-bub, Yahweh is the god of biscuits, whereas the "god of the philosophers" is a pagan non-deity and out-right rejection of christian superstition.
"you just don't understand" in 3.....2......
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